English Dictionary

tarn

IPA（発音記号）

/tɑːn/

名詞

イングランド北部方言 アメリカ英語

(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. / (US, chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.

日本語の意味

北部イングランドで使われる意味：山中にある小さな湖 / アメリカ（特にモンタナ州）で使われる意味：多く存在する山中の小さな湖や池

We rested beside the tarn as mist rolled down from the crags.

険しい岩場から霧が流れ落ちる中、私たちは山の小さな湖のほとりで休んだ。

意味（1）

(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.

Thou Wind, that ravest without, / Bare craig, or mountain-tairn, or blasted tree, / Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb, / Or lonely house, long held the witches' home, / Methinks were fitter instruments for thee, / Mad Lutanist! [footnote: Tairn is a small lake, generally if not always applied to the lakes up in the mountains, and which are the feeders of those in the valleys.[…]]

意味（2）

(US, chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.

It [the caribou] makes a fine, bold study on the foreground of an evening scene among the mountain tarns of Northern Idaho, as it fulfils the ideal description of the stag given by [Walter] Scott and other writers.

tarns （ plural ）